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[–] [email protected] 27 points 8 months ago (3 children)

I swear I’m going to capture screenshots of 2-3 dozen searches across DDG & Google, as well as hopefully Bing, Startpage… SearXNG…

b/c DDG is doodoo while corporate overlord Google is great with Ublock Origin.

Faithfully perform every search on DDG first in the hopes I can keep the data out of Google’s hands! But !g out half the time.

Anybody know of a site, app, or TamperMonkey script that’ll search multiple search engines side-by-side?

In the meantime, one example w/a direct quote from deep inside a Harry Potter book:

[–] [email protected] 5 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)
[–] [email protected] 2 points 8 months ago (1 children)

You know DDG is just a wrapper around Bing right? No point comparing the two.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 8 months ago

Not entirely true, they have their own index they use to augment/modify the results with. Like the paper linked in this very post shows, actually.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 8 months ago

Works on SearX